Poms and Indians

1. "He came off the pitch like the crack of doom." Who said this about whom?

Len Hutton on Mohammad Nissar

Herbert Sutcliffe on Vinoo Mankad

Wally Hammond on Amar Singh

Douglas Jardine on Mohammad Nissar

2. On the 1974 tour of England, when India lost the Test series 3-0, an Indian player was accused of shoplifting. Name the player.

Brijesh Patel

Madan Lal

Eknath Solkar

Sudhir Naik

3. Where did India beat England for the first time in a Test match?

Mumbai

Kolkata

Delhi

Chennai

4. The record for most ducks in a series (five) for a batsman (playing between Nos. 1-7) is jointly held by Mohinder Amarnath and another player. Name him.

Dennis Amiss

Pankaj Roy

Geoff Boycott

Chetan Chauhan

5. In the Golden Jubilee Test in 1980, GR Viswanath recalled this batsman, who he felt was given out wrongly. The batsman went on to feature in a crucial, and eventually match-winning, stand. Who?

Alan Knott

Derek Underwood

Bob Taylor

Dennis Amiss

6. On England's disastrous tour of India in 1993 (they lost 3-0), only two batsmen managed to score centuries. One was Graeme Hick, who was the other?

Mike Gatting

Richard Blakey

Chris Lewis

Robin Smith

7. This bowler picked up 10 for 70 and bowled England to an innings win in Delhi in 1976 but was alleged to have used Vaseline to tamper with the ball in the Chennai Test in the same series. Name him.

John Snow

John Lever

Mike Hendrick

Geoff Arnold

8. X/Y, Malcolm Marshall/Jeff Dujon, Imran Khan/Javed Miandad. These are the bowler-fielder combinations who dismissed Sunil Gavaskar first ball of the match on three different occasions. Name X and Y.

10. This bowler dismissed Kapil Dev at a crucial juncture in the 1987 World Cup semi-final in Mumbai. Kapil, however, hit the bowler for four consecutive sixes at Lord's in 1990 to help India avoid the follow-on. Who is the bowler?

John Emburey

Eddie Hemmings

Richard Illingworth

Phil Defreitas

11. Lala Amarnath was sent back by the Indian captain from the 1936 tour of England on disciplinary grounds. Who was the captain?

Mushtaq Ali

CK Nayudu

Vijay Merchant

The Maharajah of Vizianagram

12. Which bowler has the most wickets and five-fors in India-England Tests?

Anil Kumble

Ian Botham

Bhagwath Chandrasekhar

Bob Willis

13. Which England bowler was banned for a Test after barging into Sunil Gavaskar (at Lord's in 1971) as he attempted to take a single?

Bob Willis

John Lever

Graham Dilley

John Snow

14. What is unique about the England-India Test at Edgbaston in 1967?

It was the first time no Indian batsman managed to score a fifty in a game.

The match is the only one where all four spinners of the famed Indian spin quartet featured

India were bowled out below 100 for the only time in Tests against England

It was the first time India suffered a whitewash in a series of three or more matches.

15. Sachin Tendulkar has been out stumped only once in his Test career. Ashley Giles was the bowler on that occasion. Who was the wicketkeeper?

James Foster

Jack Russell

Geraint Jones

Alec Stewart

16. This bowler's only ten-wicket haul in Tests helped England go 2-1 up and eventually win the 1984-85 series in India. Identify him.

Graham Dilley

Neil Foster

Derek Pringle

Paul Jarvis

17. Which Indian batsman once hit Bob Willis for six fours in an over?

Gundappa Viswanath

Salim Durani

Sandeep Patil

Kapil Dev

18. Sunil Gavaskar has been dismissed 11 times each by Imran Khan and Michael Holding. Only one bowler has dismissed him more often. Who?

Ian Botham

Bob Willis

Derek Underwood

Malcolm Marshall

19. Which England batsman also played football for Arsenal and achieved the rare distinction of a foreign player scoring a century in the final of the Ranji Trophy?

John Edrich

Colin Cowdrey

Denis Compton

Jack Hobbs

20. Only three players have achieved the unique double of 100-plus runs and a ten-wicket haul in the same match. Alan Davidson and Imran Khan are two; who is the third?

Ian Botham

Wally Hammond

Andrew Flintoff

Jacques Kallis

21. This bowler once had remarkable figures of 32-27-5-0 against England in Chennai in 1964 and holds the record for the most consecutive maiden overs (21) in an innings. Who is the bowler?

Vaman Kumar

Erapalli Prasanna

Bishan Singh Bedi

Bapu Nadkarni

22. Complete the sequence: Desmond Haynes, Steve Waugh, ________

Geoff Boycott

Alec Stewart

Michael Vaughan

Graham Gooch

23. Graham Gooch scored 752 runs in the 1990 series against India, which is a record for a three-Test series. What is the other record from that series that Gooch still holds?

Gooch's 333 at Lord's is the highest individual score by an England batsman

The 333 is the highest score by any player in an innings against India

Gooch is the only player to score a triple-century in England

Gooch's match aggregate of 456 in the Lord's Test is the highest ever in Tests

24. India is the only team to have lost the first four wickets for no run (0 for 4) in a Test innings. Where and in which year did this take place?

Lord's, 1974

Headingley, 1952

Old Trafford, 1952

The Oval, 1936

25. This catch was a pivotal moment in the England second innings at The Oval in 1971. India went on to win the Test by four wickets and the series 1-0. Name the batsman and fielder.